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Jaya Saxena

@jayasaxena.com
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Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing Queens, NY she/her Tips to jaya@weareravenous.con

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 1h
Talked about the new wave of independent food media with @devrafirst.bsky.social at @bostonglobe.com. I think we're building something good. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/30/l...
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Food media strikes back - The Boston Globe
In an era of upheaval, journalists are launching independent publications. Will this experiment work?
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 3h
I keep thinking about this and Nikole Hannah-Jones' pieces and how all the pain and devil's bargains with modern K-12 schooling is all in service of sending kids to places like this. At every "elite" high school, this is the goal. For fucking what?
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 14h
Ok so don’t see Primetime when you’re already sad
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 22h
Today @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social asks, why are people playing screamo in the cafe? www.weareravenous.com/loud-music-r...
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There’s a Good Reason the Back of House Doesn’t Pick the Playlist
I just wanted some coffee and pizza. I got an earful of screaming infidelities.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 29/09/2026
Some people desperate to let you know they've never met a brown person before
Someone suggesting my name is a "nom de plume of a Georgetown alumna. School motto is Hoya Saxa"
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 28/09/2026
Loved this piece from @francesdoingthings.bsky.social about Filipino eating in Forgotten Island
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 28/09/2026
One thing I've noticed is that upstart worker-owned places are trying our best to pay as much as possible, but because none of us have millions is still far from how much we want to pay. But the rates at the big media companies haven't budged or gotten worse objectivejournalism.org/2026/09/free...
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Freelance journalism rates have barely changed since 2000
New data from the National Writers Union offers a glimpse into a bleak picture of decades-long wage stagnation in freelance journalism.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 28/09/2026
Loved this piece from @francesdoingthings.bsky.social about Filipino eating in Forgotten Island
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Which is just to say that if you think you’re siloing yourself off from the working class by NOT listening to modern country music, you are, in fact, in a silo of your own creation.
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Entering the modern country music/working class discourse to say that New York City did not even HAVE a country music station for the entirety of my youth in the 70s & 80s. Closest the working classes got would’ve been Glenn Campbell (and specifically, “Rhinestone Cowboy” or “Gentle on my Mind”).
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 23/09/2026
Had an "Old Man Yells at Cloud" moment about restaurants not putting where the fuck they are on their Instagram pages
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026
Wait you guys are getting job interviews?
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026
"Just in Maryland, the hospitality industry is $26.5 billion in economic output. It supports more than 242,000 jobs...This is going to affect your community, pick up the phone, call your representatives, make sure that people in office are passing the important bills that we need."
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 24/09/2026
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social , i wrote a little about surviving, and being older than Nevermind, which turns 35 today. www.pastemagazine.com/music/nirvan...
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I never expected Nevermind to grow old with me
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026
"Just in Maryland, the hospitality industry is $26.5 billion in economic output. It supports more than 242,000 jobs...This is going to affect your community, pick up the phone, call your representatives, make sure that people in office are passing the important bills that we need."
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 24/09/2026
I spoke to chef Carlos Raba about the Menu of Solutions, a slate of immigration legislation that a coalition of food orgs and restaurants say will bring down the cost of food. And about why it's so frustrating to frame immigration rights through grocery costs. www.weareravenous.com/the-key-to-c...
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The Key to Cheaper Groceries? Immigration Reform
Seat The Table wants to pass a slate of immigration legislation to protect immigrants and keep food prices down. Chef Carlos Raba explains how the two are connected.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 24/09/2026
I spoke to chef Carlos Raba about the Menu of Solutions, a slate of immigration legislation that a coalition of food orgs and restaurants say will bring down the cost of food. And about why it's so frustrating to frame immigration rights through grocery costs. www.weareravenous.com/the-key-to-c...
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The Key to Cheaper Groceries? Immigration Reform
Seat The Table wants to pass a slate of immigration legislation to protect immigrants and keep food prices down. Chef Carlos Raba explains how the two are connected.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 24/09/2026
LA Times is reporting that AI signs are bringing in business at a local burrito place. More evidence that they don't gross everyone out! www.latimes.com/food/newslet...
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Freaked out by 'AI slop menus'? They might be — gulp 🤢 — here to stay
Bizarre AI slop menus with unsettling food images are taking over restaurants in L.A. and beyond. Why some restaurants say they work.
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Courtney E. Smith @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hello today is the day I break that indie rock broke back in 2004. You are welcome for this news update. And go listen to this podcast, my god.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 15/05/2026
Periodic reminder that I am also the series editor of the Best American Food and Travel Writing anthology, and that you should be submitting your writing to bestamericanfoodtravel@gmail.com. Yes, from your newsletter/zine/indie pub! Full guidelines here media.sailthru.com/fss/flelv5/d...
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 23/09/2026
Had an "Old Man Yells at Cloud" moment about restaurants not putting where the fuck they are on their Instagram pages
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 23/09/2026
For the love of god, just tell me where you are.
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Restaurants, Your Address Shouldn’t Be a Secret
For the love of god, just tell me where you are.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 21/11/2025
MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down TRUMP: Uh huh MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade? TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 23/09/2026
If you're in Brooklyn tonight come see me read...something! I'll figure it out by then I promise. www.instagram.com/p/DcmW7NbRqwO/
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Ashok Selvam @shokdiesel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Frickin’ @aemccarthy.bsky.social. Do you think I am going let her do this by herself? Consider this MATCHED.
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 22/09/2026
As you may know, we’ve been working over the last month to secure 300 new paid subscribers in 30 days. Welp, today’s day 30, and it’s the final day to score our biggest discount ever. Join @katkinsman.bsky.social and the rest of the flock today! Here's 30% off a subscription: buff.ly/EYirJYs
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 21/09/2026
I'm sorry for all those rude things I said about Chicago's most notorious liqueur
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I Think I Might Have Been Wrong About Malört
I'm sorry for all those rude things I said about Chicago's most notorious liqueur
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 22/09/2026
Today is the last day!!!
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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we're already halfway to 10 new paid subscribers, don't you want to become the sixth? or the seventh?? even the EIGHTH???
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Beloved @jayasaxena.com is directly in her wheelhouse writing about AI slop in the food world in her new-ish worker-owned food publication. www.weareravenous.com/for-ai-food-...
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For AI Food Slop, Gross Is in the Eye of the Beholder
AI food imagery would still be a problem even if it didn't look horrifying.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 22/09/2026
I'm gonna match Amy on this, let's raise some money
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 22/09/2026
gearing up to get another book ready to send into the world right now and i just wanted to take a second to say that you should get your hands on a copy of SIMPLICITY if you like anything i've ever made. i'm still so immensely proud of it.
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 21/09/2026
While corporate media is cutting costs and getting rid of human workers, we’re aiming to do the exact opposite. We want to hire talented food freelancers who have something important to say. Help us fund our freelance budget and join smart readers like @joshgondelman.bsky.social. buff.ly/EYirJYs
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 22/09/2026
Today is the last day!!!
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 21/09/2026
The only way to tell if you're a transplant (derogatory) or not is to come to my apartment and I will either bestow upon you a big smooch on the forehead or a sad wag of my finger
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 21/09/2026
"Are Comics Serious Literature?" is maybe my favorite piece of artwork period
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 21/09/2026
Just thinking about how so many unionized media workers have been laid off, which means we can't pay salary dues, which really fucks over the whole "unions having money to do things" plan
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 21/09/2026
Tomorrow is the last day for this, so get your subs now!
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...
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The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth
The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 21/09/2026
Co-founder @jayasaxena.com spoke to @theguardian.com about the rise of private equity in the NYC restaurant scene. "It’s extraordinarily depressing that [private equity] often leads to a less flavorful environment." buff.ly/BmEhuTJ
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‘Don’t spend $20 on an acai bowl’: gen Z are shunning private equity’s restaurant takeover
As more PE firms invest in food establishments, people are bemoaning the ‘same-ification’ of NYC’s restaurant scene
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 21/09/2026
It's restaurant week in a few places, so upping my piece about how it got a reputation for being cringe, and why it actually still rules www.weareravenous.com/restaurant-w...
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Restaurant Week Is Good, Actually
Chefs and diners have been plenty skeptical of Restaurant Week's discounted menus. But what if it's a better way to learn what a city's restaurants have to offer?
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 19/09/2026
Why is Instagram seemingly only suggesting Creed’s “Higher” for every single story?
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
...Assumption #2 is "Trans people are a brand-new minority group, so you just need to be patient until the rest of society is finally ready to accept you." even though this is completely untrue, many cis ppl sadly seem to believe it... juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
screenshot from the linked-to essay that reads:
I’ve been involved in trans communities since the early 1990s, and during that entire time trans people have acted locally — in their schools, workplaces, and communities — to increase awareness and challenge discriminatory practices. The International Olympic Committee began allowing trans athletes to compete way back in 2004, and gender-affirming care for trans youth is now almost three decades old. These are not by any means “novel” or “radical” developments.
When I transitioned 25 years ago, trans people were able to get our documents changed to reflect our current lived sex in most jurisdictions. But since 2025, the Trump administration and several red states have reversed those policies. In other words, trans people are not asking for new rights, we are losing rights that we’ve had for decades!
So whenever a Democrat comes out in favor of trans sports bans or restrictions on trans healthcare, those are not neutral positions, they are actively participating in the rolling back of trans rights that have long existed!
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
MAKE SOME NEW GLORY DAYS WHY ARE YOU GIVING UP
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just got a press release for a new bar that “pays homage to the glory days of NYC nightlife” and listen, I’m sure this bar is perfectly nice, but I’m losing my goddamn mind. I’m sick of remakes! I’m sick of homages! Stop building monuments to beauty instead of trying to build beauty itself!!!!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
"what if the democrats become labour on trans rights" is the nightmare scenario for trans people in the united states and avoiding that is why I think we need to continue pushing back on dems who waver as hard as possible
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